The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-01
ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS.

BILL NYE complains of the notable lack of To-
cal gags in Booths Hamlet"
THE Rev. Moses Knockout is the name of a
popular Pennsylvania evangelist.
BURLINGTON Free Press: Speculations are
usually followed by populations
CHANCES E. PILGRIM. the new ''boy preach
err" is said to be just sixteen. He lives in Phil
adelphia
GENERAL SHERMAN's biggest vice, next to
kissing pretty girls, is his regular attendance at
the circus.
AGE tells. For the first time in forty years
the venerable Hannibal Hamlin this winter
wears overcoat
| Mr.. GEORGE BURNS, one of the three founders
| of the Cunard Steamship Company. is still living
at the age of ninety one.
SUBLIME person: Will you not come with me
! to hear the lecture on the utter? Frivolous and
| un9sthetic person: Depends on who's the ut.
| terer.
F! BONANZA MACKAY gave every employee of the
| Commercial Cable Company both in this coun-
try and Europe half months salary as Christ
| mas gift
THERE is streak Of economy in the group of
| candidates for the Nevada senatorship. They
have agreed not to spend more than 800, 900 in
the fight.
|
reuth and the dispute about the place of its ulti-
mate seputure is apparently no nearer settle
| ment than ever
THE Vassar Miscellany is authority for the
| statement that "a girl can limit her incidental
| to $25 per annum.'
EDITOR DAWSON. of the Charleston News and
Courier, is an English-born Catholic and per
| al fria IF tha NH ba ofko
| receives special messages.
| WORD comes of the death of the Countess
Beust, whosurvved her i.lustrious husband only
few weeks. She was once noted as the mos
| beautiful woman in Germany.
THE artesian we'll which has Just been com.
pleted at the assay office i'll Wall street, New
York, is 467 feet deep. The water is very cold.
but so much impregnated with lime as to be
scarcely ct to drink.
| REV. ROBERT CoLLYER preached a sermon
from his New York pulpit, last Sunday, taking
for his text little Lord Fauntleroy' Mrs Bur
| nett can henceforth count herself among the
apostles and the prophets.
LORD RONALD COVER has started a move
ment for the protection of Landseers lions, al
| the base of the Nelson monument, which are
! being shamefully defaced by the Socialist nobs
| that hold their meetings in Trafalgar square !
queathed to the English language word tina,
will rhyme with ''youngster.' 1t is conquest
| Now. why is not the auctioneer q lungster md
a barkssper bungsterl Our language must be
enriched.
SENATOR SHERMAN and General Sherman are
said to exchange letters almost daily when GU,
| of one another's society s'Cumpr is what
John always calls the soldier and Nov, John
is the style that the General uses in accostine
| the Senator.
Mrs JOHN c. MILLER. of Keytesville Mo-
has ship biscuit which. it is said was brought
from England in $780, and which has beer
handed down from generation to generation. /
is kept in glass bottle, and is as hard as ,
boarding house roll.
OMAHA World: Neliie-"Were you ever to
bogganing in Canadaf" Minnie-"Yes; but i
isn't half so nice as it is in Omaha 'sToo cold9
NO that doesn't matter; but the slides are 8.
awfully steep" Sleeper than ourss' 80 eyel